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Naziism-Iron Rule Cracking—Dying As It Was Born..In A Blood Bath Murders And Quarrel Inside Reich Reveal Germany's Frantic Plight
By PAUL GHALfL Times Foreign Correspondent BERN, April 10—While the Nazi beast shdirpens his claws and turns to rend the weaklings of its flock, Germany's so-called antiNazi group girds for last-minute open opposition. Local committees are forming
to co-ordinate their’ action under a general staff.
In all big cities the anti-Nazi -
press is circulating openly. Early reich risers wake to read
wall inscriptions -placed by nocturnal prowlers: “Hitler started the war: With Hitler's fall the war will be over, Peace! million dead-——this is ,the work of our fuehrer.” Even to the ears of the master of the master race, in his Berchtesgaden “retreat,” comes the one cry, “The people want peace, peace at any price.” : Administration—pride of all" German regimes—is fast cracking,
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Even the highest officials - are deserting their posts. Those few who remain favor the clandestine opposition—hoping somehow to whitewash themselves. In the east the number of high Nazis already shot for “defeatism” is estimated in well-informed quarters at more than 500, Reports reaching here state that the mayors of Breslau, Stettin, Frankfurt, Gleiwitz, Hindenburg and Beuthen, together with scores , of their officials, have been hanged publicly.
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Modein farmers must be Siokkeorse as wel as tillers of the soil. ‘Keith Winchester (right) checks his farm records against those of of his father, Garnett.
BLACK MARKET
PROBERS IRKED
OPA * ‘Sheer-Rumor’ Claim Sets Off Senate Blast.
“ WASHINGTON, April 10 (U, PJ). Food investigating senators’today angrily rejected an OPA suggestion that most black market talk “is. hoax, without foundation.”
The suggestion was made at agg -oammritiee heering by: «Thomas. 1
Emerson, deputy price administrator | Senator | Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) reacted promptly and bitterly. “What,” he demanded, think we are up here—a ehildren?”
“I'm Telling Truth”
Senator Kenneth S. Wherry (R. Neb.), who. recently ‘charged that meat was being sold wholesale in a black market flourishing in the capital, was equally displeased. “I want OPA to know,” he said, “That when I make a charge, I know what I am talking about.” Emerson tried to tell Wheeler that a labor department check showed that retail meat prices had not advanced since May, 1943: Wheeler laughed without mirth, “What a joke that is!” he said. “People who buy their meat on the black market are paying larger sums for it than they ever did be fore in the history of this country. Committee Chairmen Elmer Thomas (D..Okla.), had said earlier
lot of
that he didn't know what to do because | the whole]
about the black market “you can't prosecute
‘United States.”
‘Unfrocked a Frankenstein’
Thomas, who set out last month with the announced aim of “exposing” the black market, said he now feels somewhat as though he had unfrocked a Frankensteij. “The black market is raging,” he sald unhappily. “We're making a nation of outlaws. I don't think we'd even have enough soldiers to enforce it. “New York City is just one big black market. I've heard that as much as 90 per cent of the meat sold there is black market. And other major ‘cities are just about the same.” ’ cao even thought that the ittee’s inquiry might be hurt- _ ® cause of homest operators. “Sometimes,” he said¥ “it seems to me that our hearings have just
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Future Farmers) annual meeting at
CLUB DINING PARTY LOCKED IN BUILDING
Eight Members ‘Imprisoned’ For Two Hours.
“Don’t Fence Me In” appeared made to order for eight members of the Curtiss-Wright Masonic Pin club today. They were erroneously confined in the Canary Cottage, 46 Monument Circle, for two hours last night. Following a dinner party, the boys found themselves locked in shortly after nigh and called police. Police contacted Lloyd Brooks, Canary Cottage bartender, who arrived on the scene at 1:30 a. m, and, liberated the men. Explaining that there were originally 53 Masonic pinners, all Cur-tiss-Wright employees, in the private dining room, Mr. Brooks said: “They kept walking out one by on and I thought they had all gone home.” He said he had barred the
| Canary Cottage door at 11:30 p. m.
Spokesman for the “captive” group, Berton Jenssen of 4545 Marcy lane, remarked that he had seen “people tossed out but never locked in.” Ls “Some of them called their wives” sald Mr. Jenssen, “but I don't think
: all of them believed it.”
i STAR EXPECTING HEIR HOLLYWOOD, April 10 (U. P,) — Screen Actress Lynn Bari today declined a lead role in a 20th Cen-tury-Fox picture because she and 8 her husband are expecting an heir Lu August. Her husband is Bid
The family garden is his mother’s domain, but Keith often helps in the weeding and setting out of plants. Here they inspect the hot-
Times Special Writer COLUMBUS, Ind, April 10—Keith Winchester is a member of Future Farmers of America with the brightest of futures. Just last week Keith was named the star Hoosier farmer at the
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17-Year-Old Youth Sees Bright Future in the Soil
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Purdue university.
This 17-year-old boy now holds the most coveted honor in the state for farm youth. And while it pleases him and his family immensely, his
natural modesty is even more pronounced, friends say. Keith has an intense love of and faith in farming. His philosophy is as earthy. as the soil he .tills. A Good Living
“There is a bright fditure on the farm , , . a bright future for any youth who works,” Keith said. “A good farmer can make a good living from good ground. A bad farmer can’t. A good farmer can make a living from poor ground while the bad farmer goes broke on fertile soil. “Modern farm equipment is making our work easier and is taking’ a lot of drudgery out of it,” he said. ; “But there is no, drudgery to me, especially when am out. in the field. Then I can smell the warm earth, stretch my legs and feel the plowed ground givé under my feet.” Own 128-Acre Farm
Keith's love of the farm stems from his father and mother, Mr, and Mrs. Garnett L. Winchester. They own a 128-acre farm near Columbus where Keith is a senior in high school. He is majoring in vocational agriculture at school and more than does ‘his homework on the, farm. His day begins about 5:30 a. m. when he, his father and a brother do the early morning chores and milking. Then it is off to school. Late in the afternoon he can be found in the fields elds working with his
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"" CLING TO RUSSIA LONDON, April 10 (U. P)—
Zdenek Pierlinger, new premier of.
Czechoslovakia, said today fhe “Slav peoples think it natural that they should group themselves around their great ally, the Soviet
| indicated that BéYlin was preparing]
i RpehNey ¢ | said the pocket still in German)
The prisons of central and northern Germany are filled with party enemies, In the south they are so over- | crowded that the gestapo chief of | Munich has received an urgent | request from the prison governor | to cease arrests since there is no | more room. Nazism is dying as it was born —in a blood bath. The most important clandestine | movements—whose names are no |
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110 Miles From Berchtesgaden.
By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent
sian siege forces storming the last third of Vienna in Ger-| man hands today captured the Rennweg barracks, main barracks of the Aus-
son. (A spokesman at U. S. 12th army group headquarters said the Russians were 110 miles from Berchtesgaden at an undisclosed point, and were “likely to get there before the Germans” seeking refuge in the Bavarian Alps.) | Gloomy Nazi reports “ol 1 Soviet gains in the Vienna streets the. German people for the early fall of the city. Three-Way Assault The Free Austrian radio reported | the fall of the Rennweg barracks, | on a street of the same name which | leads ifently to the Ringstrasse. | JGerman high command re porta “grim ighting” in Vienna BEF broaacasts
hands was being ‘stormed from the
; | north, south and west, and portions | § of it were on fire. 14 The Russians were reported bat- | tling for crossings of the Danube | 3
river and canal. Virtually all that portion of Vien- | na west of the river and canal, including the center of the city, was cleared by Marshal Feodor I. Tol-
day. Swept up in the advance were the parliament building, main police station, radio station, central postoffice, state opera house, gas works, the Central European bank and several factories.
Stubborn Resistance
Still in German hands was a 10-square-mile pocket east of the Danube river and canal, mostly factories and the big Prater park. One Soviet column was fighting in the mint district, the enémy’s last foothold west of the Danube canal. The German - controlled Vienna radio went off the air early last night, | ' Far to the north, Marshal Alexander M. Vassilevsky’s 3d White Russian army beat at a 100-square-mile German pocket on the Samland peninsula of East Prussia after capturing Koenigsberg, capital of the junkers province. Koenigsberg, last German strong- |
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On to Berlin
The nearest distance to Berlin from advanced allied lines today: EASTERN FRONT-31 miles (from Zaeckerick), WESTERN FRONT-—126 miles (from Schlotheim). ITALIAN FRONT-516 (from hear Commachio),
miles
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bukhin’s 3d Ukrainian army yester-|.
By CURT RIESS Times Foreign Correspondent BERN, Switzerland, April 10. The deterioration of .the Nazi regime is in full swing.
On a secret visit to unoccupied
| Germany I obtained dozens of
reports and eyewitness stories of the reign of terror now in progress in ‘parts of the reich still controlled by Hitler and his henchmen. At the moment, large segments of the German population are less afraid of allied air Sai or ap-
proaching: enemy armies than they are of the terrific number of murders inside the reich. Assassinations and ‘arrests
are not confined to 'anti-Nazis or supposed anti-Nazis, but quarrels among Nazis themselves are causing bloodshed, too. During the last six to eight weeks enormous numbers of arrests and shootings occurred in alls parts of unliber~ ated Germany. The victimg are mainly. industrialists, businessmen, clergymen and intellectuals. They are mostly
Rissizne Re Reported, Pilot Who Wrecked Yamato Saved
: {trian capital's hard pressed garri-| ee
BOMB BLASTS DOWNED | PLANE
Rescuers Find. He Hero Afloat American landing reported off the
In Midst of Jap Fleet.
By MAC R. JOHNSON United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD ADM, TURNER'S
FLAGSHIP, Okinawa, April 10— A young navy pilot. parachuted from his burning plane into’ the middle 6f the doomed Japanese task force off Kyushu Saturday.
He watched from the water for | m four hours while the Japanese tried |
futilely to save their 40,000-ton battleship Yamato, The pilot, Lt. (j.g.) William Ernest Delaney, of Detroit, was rescued under the cover of smoke fromthe
burning Yamato by a twin-engined
{navy patrol bomber piloted by Lt.
James R. Young of Central City, Ky. while a second bomber circled the area to divert any enemy fire. Delaney told newsmen today that he scored four direct hits on the super-battleship with -500-pound
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Hoosier Heroes
Five local servicemen have been killed in Europe and one on Luzon, today's war department lists reveal. A crew chief on a B-1T is missing over Germany, and two men previously reported missing, are prisoners of that country. An-
armies - from a German prison camp, { KILLED Sgt. Robert W. Brown, 1038 8S. Keystone ave, in Germany, . _
_— James L. Davis, 1020 E.
8, in Germany,
other previously reported missing | “'|has beén freed by tHe Amerfcan
:6AreKilled,
Flier Missing; 2 in Prisons
Sgt. Lawrence H. Carmichael, 4017 Sheriflan, over Germany. 'v Pfc. Kellie J. Barnett, R’ R: 3; Box 822, in Germany. - Second Lt. ‘Roy F. Huls, 3113 Ruckle st, .over Garmany. P MISSING T. ‘Sgt. Lloyd (Sardy) Sanford, 1016 N, Winfield ave, over Berlin. * PRISONERS T. 5th Gr. George Botu, 325 ‘Koehne st, of Germany. Sgt. Lester Schuldt, 1221% N. New Jersey st, of Germany. : SAFE
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Lt. (j.g.) William Ernest Delaney
} Pfc. James W. Jeffrey, 4720 position on Muzdebur in a new Graceland ave., freed by ty Sth send beyond
New Landing Off ' Okinawa Reported
By UNITED PRESS Action flared along both coasts of southern Okinawa today with a new
| east side and the greatest artillery duel of the Pacific war thundering on the west. Tokyo said American troops had landed on tiny Tsukata island lying eight miles off the southeast coast
{and controlling the entrance to the
newly conquered Nakagusuku bay naval anchorage. Other troops driving along the
people who were locally prominent in democratic circles long: before Hitler came to power, and who never joined the Ndzi party. When the Nazis took over, they were more or less left alone. I was told that extensive lists of these people existed, and that in a number of cases, gestapo agents displayed such lists while looking for names and addresses. Those arrested were shot within
a few hours—sometimes even within a few minutes. Evidently the ini feel
there is no longer time even for the short mock trials of the Volksgerichti, The purpose of these executions is clear. The Nazis do not want to leave anyone behind who might be helpful in rebuilding a democratic Germany. Thus it may well be that many on whom the allies counted for help after the war have been killed during the past few weeks. I have also been informed that in
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HANNOVER CAPTURED BY 9TH: IST ENTERS HARZ MOUNTAINS
Reds F ight Way Into Last Third Of Vienna
[Yanks Race 23 Miles Beyond City
As Crumbling German North and
Central Lines Cave In.
BULLETINS HANNOVER, Germany, April 10 (U. P.).— The 84th infantry division of the American 9th army captured Hannover this morning and is mopping up remaining isolated resistance.
PARIS, April 10 (U. P.).—Two American armies
“caved in the German defenses on the northern and central
roads to Berlin today and stormed eastward at a mile-an-hour clip 115 and 120 miles from the Nazi capital. Armored outriders of the U. S. 1st army broke into the Harz mountains governing the southwestern ap-
proaches to Berlin after a 26-
mile daylong advance. Nord-
hausen, 115 miles southwest of the capital was outflanked.
The 9th army raced 23 —point 120 miles from Berlin.
‘miles beyond Hannover to a
By BOYD
D. LEWIS © *
United Press Staff Correspondent -
PARIS, April 10.—American 9th army troops stormed
{into burning Hannover today and raced another 23 Miles Lheyond the city to within®120. miles af Revlin.
The 9th army drive was co-ordinated with a new strike by the U. 8. 1st army ini central Germany toward Nord-
"| hausen, 115 miles southwest
Germans Revise Their Strategy as
Losses ‘Increase
By RALPH E. HEINZEN United Press War Analyst
GERMANY, losing troops at a |
rate of 1,000,000 a month, has reached the point where it has shifted from continuous front defense tactics to chains of disconnected strongpoints at crucial places on many sectors to save manpower, The best demonstration of this revised strategy is on the sectors of the 3d and Tth American armies. American armor was able to advance deeply into Germany without signs of a continuous defense
| front anywhere et behind the | tanks, lafge an natical con-
of Berlin. Both attacks were rolling foward behind a sav
age allied aerial A bombardment that reached back almost to the -gates of the German capital. A fleet of 1300 heavy bombers of the U. S. 8th air force, escorted by 850 fighter planes, attacked seven air fields for jet-propelled aircraft in northern Germany. Meanwhile, in an explosive burst |of power that threatened momen-
{tarily to cave in the Germans’ en- oo
{tire northern flank, the Americans {broke loose on the main Hannover-\Brunswick-Berlin super-highway less | than 16 miles from Brunswick and miles from the Elbe river line that forms the enemy's last big de- | fensive barrier in the West. Cut Super-Highway Doughboys of the 84th infantry | division swarmed through the streets tof “Hannover, Germany's 12th city, [after a sudden breakthrough from the north Simultaneously, 5th
the 9th army's armored division stabbed 23
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, The Canadian 1st army ¢ closes
a trap on Germans in Holland
the U. rive into the foothills of the Hars mountains;